As if it’s not frustrating enough that there aren’t a lot of free objects on the internet, a lot of them aren’t compatible with TG2 either. Often textures don’t load for example. However, this problem can be easily fixed! How it’s done is shown here with the use of the French Maple tree (Montpelier Maple, Acer monspessulanum) from the website of the TU Dresden. more…

If you’ve ever tried to stretch an imported terrain, i.e. a heightfield, over the whole planet like in TG0.9, you’ve probably run into some problems because heightfields don’t follow the curvature of the planet. more…

If you have ever tried to scatter Fake Stones by means of Slope, you may have realised that it comes with quite an amount of secondary effects attached that are sometimes hard to deal with. The aim of this tutorial is, therefore, to present a method with only two Shaders that – nonetheless – provides immaculate results. more…

A substantial problem with populations is their resource requirement. Having several populations in a scene often requires hundreds of megabytes or even gigabytes of memory.

Before Vista was released in 2007, the typical PC had been equipped with relatively little memory. But you don’t get very far with 512MB. Furthermore, the population process can take quite some time.
So, what do populations have to be like if you want them to be generated fast and economically? more…